Did my first 100/100 challenge today (100 birds while driving 100 or less miles). Covered Sherburne Refuge, southern Mille Lacs County & Foley ponds.
Result: 100 species, 86 miles, took 8.6 hours. All observations were of either normally nesting or over-summering birds. Notable: Ruddy Ducks - Red-shouldered & Broad-winged Hawks - Common Gallinule - all six swallows - only eight warblers - ten sparrows - Orchard Orioles at Sherburne & Foley ponds Misses: Wood Duck - Ruffed Grouse - Common Loon - Least Bittern - Northern Harrier - both Cuckoos - Pileated Woodpecker - RB Nuthatch - Wood Thrush - Black & White Warbler - Brewer's Blackbird. Good birding to all! Al Schirmacher Princeton, MN Sent from my iPhone ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
